After the end of World War I, America emerged as a promising land of opportunity for people willing to work for it. However, for some, it corrupted them as they set out to achieve the American dream by acquiring wealth for the sole purpose of pursuing pleasure. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald showing that no one is safe from corruption. This novel is seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway, who moves from the Midwest to the West-Egg to pursue his American dream. He observes the people and events around him as he follows his neighbor Jay Gatsby's attempts to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan. Throughout the novel, the characters seem to enjoy the freedom of the 1920s, but this ends when the characters have miserable lives. George and Myrtle Wilson both want to climb the social class ladder, but approach it in two different ways. With George he follows the rules and tries to advance as a hard worker, but his wife Myrtle is the complete opposite, she is so intent on being in a higher class that she loses her morals and cheats on her husband. On a similar idea, Gatsby has been blinded by love and tries to get Daisy's love back, no matter what it costs, using his illegally earned wealth. We see these empty lives and the corruptions of the American dream in the novel through George Wilson's honesty and unsuccessful hard work, Myrtle Wilson's lost morals, and Gatsby's single-minded attempt to recreate the past as Nick shows that he lacks sympathy. and looks down on the lower class and only admires the person he identifies with. Although George Wilson is the most honest and hardworking man in town, he is one of those people who suffers from America's failure....... middle of paper..... .the new generation who are rich and not afraid to spend all the money and flaunt their wealth. This shows how attached people in the 1920s were to money and their economic status. Fitzgerald points out the flaw of the American dream, that of being obsessed with wealth. The American dream can be approached from many directions and ways of defining it. The main definition and idea of ​​this theory is success. Throughout Fitzgerald's novel, the concept of the American dream and success is primarily seen as obtaining all wealth and having a high economic status. We see this through the lives of George Wilson, Myrtle Wilson, Jay Gatsby, and Nick Carraway, but they all end up in corruption and ultimately a miserable life. Because the American dream is interpreted differently, it is still used and continues to be a concept in society..